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title: Approver
id: approver
date: 2018-04-12
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short_description: >
  A person who can review and approve Kubernetes code contributions.

aka: 
tags:
- community
---
 A person who can review and approve Kubernetes code contributions.

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While code review is focused on code quality and correctness, approval is focused on the holistic acceptance of a contribution. Holistic acceptance includes backwards/forwards compatibility, adhering to API and flag conventions, subtle performance and correctness issues, interactions with other parts of the system, and others. Approver status is scoped to a part of the codebase. Approvers were previously referred to as maintainers.